(I looked for a site usage forum and this is the closest I could find. If there’s a more appropriate forum for this discussion please point me there).
I’m currently working my way through the main range in chronological order, as well as listening to the Eight Doctor Adventures and a few others. The latest published main range title I’ve listened to is 103 - The Girl Who Never Was and the latest Eighth Doctor Adventure I’ve completed is ‘Dead London’
Based on that the next titles I should be listening to are 104 - The Bride of Peladon in the main range and Max Warp in the Eighth Doctor Adventures.
Instead the titles listed under ‘My Next Story’ are:
Big Finish Main Range - 120 - The Magic Mousetrap
Main Range: Fifth Doctor - Castle of Fear
Main Range: Sixth Doctor - The Raincloud Man
The Eighth Doctor Adventures - Orbis
There’s a few stories I need to listen to before I get to those. And those also aren’t the next Fifth or Sixth Doctor stories I need to listen to in the main range. I’ve told the Database which stories I own and which I’ve already listened to so presumably it knows that and it doesn’t seem to be basing it on either of those.
Does anyone know what’s going on please?
It’s entirely possible this is user error but if so I don’t know even where to start in fixing it.
When I look at your profile it looks like the las MR you completed is MR119, not MR103. My next story is based on the last one you listened to and choose the next one in the set.
For example: if I watch An Unearthly Child and then Marco Polo, my next story will be Edge of Destruction, not Dalek.
This is correct, I wanted to allow people to skip a story and carry on from where they left off, not for it to always nag to go back to an old story. This is before “skip stories” was available.
Also the reason the Fifth Doctor and Sixth Doctor are there is because there are Sets which allow you to only follow the Main Range by Doctor, if you should wish.
Some people asked for that.
If you’d like to go strictly in order, then “untrack” those sets.
I do need to write a better documentation to explain all this.
If it’s always based on the last one you completed, it does appear to be broken with some sets though. Gallifrey for example has been stuck on the questing beast for me for example since I completed the one before that even though I have completed earlier ones since then, and I think the target collection is stuck for me too?
Yeah, but that’s not quite what I mean. With gallifrey for example, I haven’t listened before, I listened up to 2.4 where it always showed me the next one correctly, then I completed damned if you do which is placed at a much later point in the series, and since then I have completed 2.5 and 3.1. So, right now it should show me 3.2 which I have not listened to, yes? But it shows me the one after damned if you do instead. Or am I not understanding correctly how it should work?
Hi, all the above is resolved and I have a new question about tracking the main range:
Is there a way to track the main range linearly? I’ve been working my way through the main range and the home tracking page was great until I hit around 100 at which point tracking suddenly split into subranges for several individual Doctors.
Is there a way to have a tracker for the main range as a whole? I notice that the stories are allocated to both the subrange and the top level main range so the necessary info is in the database.
You should already be tracking it, it might just be that the next story from it is also the next story from one of the main range: nth doctor sets, the same story won’t appear twice in the next story segment. You can go to each of the sets’ pages and choose there whether or not to track them, that way you can choose to only track the main range in its entirety
You can track them all at the same time, if you want, in fact that is the default way it works. It might just not seem that way in the next story segment.
This, for example, is how my next main range story looks because it is both the next main range in general and the next in main range seventh doctor:
It only appears to be in one set at first glance but is actually in both. After I have completed this one, it will split again, showing me both the next one in general, and the next one with the seventh doctor.
I hope that is what you meant, or am I misunderstanding your question?
I figured it was still tracking where I was up to in both sets, I’d just hoped.to be able to display both on the homepage so that I could follow the main track while still seeing where I was up to with each Doctor.
The reason this happens is if more than one set result in the next story being the same story, instead of listing the same story twice it just lists it once.
As soon as you complete that story, if the sets split off into different next stories, you’ll see two again.
Not super intuitive but that is just how it works, at the moment
